Social media is like freeways. They will fill up and become as crowded as before.

It is a land grab like everywhere else.

The crypto people have already shown up, and the solopreneurs are chiming in as well.

Hopefully Bluesky’s algorithm can make the experience significantly different that people stick around.

Instagram launched a recent thing where they allowed people to reset their profile history and clean the slate.

Compared to X, Bluesky has reliable blocking. That by itself both mitigates and deters trolling.

Bluesky has zero popular cultural adoption and users are already weirded out by extreme left influence on the discourse. I set a calendar to check this post in 18 months, now we wait

Relative, or absolute? Can't help feeling this is relative and so needs to be understood as such. Meta is going to be fine despite my boycott.

> Relative, or absolute?

Relative.

"Prior to November 5, Threads had five times more daily active users in the US than Bluesky, which has just 20 full-time staff and was initially funded by Twitter when Jack Dorsey was its chief executive. Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger than its rival, Similarweb said."

All my relatives use Facebook, I can't drop Meta because they don't always answer their phones and email, I have to message them on Facebook Messenger.

Boomer here. Can confirm. At least it's not AOL.

Echo chambers never work. See the right-wing Twitter clones like Gab.

A CNN analysis showed the Twitter is now more reflective of the US as a wholes political makeup.